Democratic Party of Russia

The Democratic Party of Russia is a conservative political party in Russia, founded on 26 May 1990 by Nikolai Travkin. The party supported democracy and evolved from liberal anti-communism to centrism and then to Russian nationalism after the end of the Soviet Union; the party also supported Russia's entry into the European Union. In 2008, the party briefly merged into the Party of Growth, only to become an independent party in 2012.